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Unité d'Habitation
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Unité d'Habitation

Residential block (18 stories high) in Marseille, France, that expressed Le Corbusier's ideal of urban family lodging. Completed in 1952, it is a vertical mixed-use community, with a shopping floor halfway up and other communal facilities on the roof. Two-story living rooms make for efficient use of volumes and permit the use of a “skip-stop” system in which elevators stop on every other floor. Each unit has front and rear balconies with sun protection provided by Le Corbusier's brise-soleil. The concrete screen pierced with differently sized openings evokes tracery.



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We see the specialist technician contributing to works of others, such as Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation.
Set pieces by Jones, Peter Blundell / The Architectural Review
This is where Le Corbusier's "machine for living," the Unite d'Habitation Typ Berlin, meets the condensed urban fabric of cheap, concrete-slab apartment buildings that made architectural history in the '60s as a symbol of social progress but in the '80s became the very image of aesthetic resignation.
Manfred Pernice: Galerie Nachst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder by Huck, Brigitte / Artforum International
Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, a monumental block of low-income apartments awkwardly wedged into the hills surrounding the small city of Firminy in central France, may once have functioned as a beacon of hope; now it bears witness to a return of the repressed--capitalism in crisis haunting the house of high Modernism.
Back to Babel: Project Unite by Zahm, Olivier / Artforum International
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